Spermatocyte responses in vitro to induced DNA damage

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1061-1072

  Matulis, Shannon ^a   Handel, Mary Ann ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Checkpoints; Chromatin; Histone H2AX; RAD51

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; ETOPOSIDE; HISTONE; PROTEIN H2AFX; RAD51 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; GAMMA IRRADIATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOCYTE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CHROMATIN; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA DAMAGE; GERM CELLS; HISTONES; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; SPERMATOCYTES;

EID: 33745625095     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20508     Document Type: Article

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